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SimpleXMLElement->__construct()

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SimpleXMLElement->__construct() -- Creates a new SimpleXMLElement object

Description

class SimpleXMLElement {

__construct ( string data [, int options [, bool data_is_url [, string ns [, bool is_prefix]]]] )

}

Creates a new SimpleXMLElement object.

data: A well-formed XML string or the path or URL to an XML document if data_is_url is TRUE.
options: Optionally used to specify additional Libxml parameters.
data_is_url: By default, data_is_url is FALSE. Use TRUE to specify that data is a path or URL to an XML document instead of string data.
ns
is_prefix

Returns a SimpleXMLElement object representing data.

Produces an E_WARNING error message for each error found in the XML data and throws an exception if errors were detected.

Example 1. Create a SimpleXMLElement object


<?php

include 'example.php';

$sxe = new SimpleXMLElement($xmlstr);
echo $sxe->movie[0]->title;

?>

Example 2. Create a SimpleXMLElement object from a URL


<?php

$sxe = new SimpleXMLElement('http://example.org/document.xml', NULL, TRUE);
echo $sxe->asXML();

?>

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